Abstract

The Scenario Focus Group (SFG) comprises water policy and planning decision makers at national and international level who guide and advise the Water Futures and Solutions Initiative, primarily by identifying key water management challenges, priorities, trends, options, and trade-offs within their regions and advising on where further systems analysis and investigation would be most helpful for understanding externalities and guiding planning decisions.

The SFG guides the development of relevant and plausible scenarios across which the sustainability and robustness of potential solution options can be tested. The goals of the first meeting of the SFG were to:- establish the SFG and understand and adjust the goals of the initiative and SFG process,- gain mutual understanding of the primary water resource development and use concerns and priorities in different world regions,- develop possible futures that members of the SFG would like to see investigated and assessed, and- ensure project impact and relevance as well as the usability of its outputs.